Comments on: Happy Birthday to the greatest of all time!http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:59:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: yahmulehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-539144
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:26:05 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-539144I’m just more protective of the wee mule than to expose him to open flame. Especially the flames emanating from a burning human, as they are prone to thrashing about.
]]>By: CyclePowerhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-3/#comment-538886
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:42:46 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538886Craig obviously supports doping in baseball because he, himself, administers a performance enhancing cocktail of coffee, cocaine, Adderall and bourbon every morning to maintain his prolific posting schedule.
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Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:10:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538460Is it Babe Ruth’s birthday?
]]>By: cohnjusackhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-538424
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:42:48 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538424Me neither. I’d probably use a blanked for a fire extinguisher or something. Failing that, advise him to stop, drop and roll. Those all seem much more effective than pissing oh him.
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Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:41:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538423Game of Shadows alleges he began using after the 1999 season. That is my only source.
]]>By: tuloisgodhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538385
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:09:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538385I had the “pleasure” of seeing Bonds hit No. 762, his last bomb, at Coors Field. I might have been the only person there who recognized at that moment that it: A) Set a new Major League record (as did all of his HRs after 756) and that it might very well be his last one. Of note, it didn’t really clear the fence — a “fan” reached over and pulled it in. I probably would have done the same thing, quite frankly. He was a great player, PEDs or not, and, despite being known as a world-class jerk, he did his job very, very well.

Interestingly, that game was in early September of 2007, when I started attending every game on the premise that I would go until the Rockies got mathematically eliminated.

]]>By: jerseydevi1http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538293
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:30:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538293Bonds before ‘Roids was fun to watch. I never got into the whole Sosa vs. McGwire show. Come to think of it, I may have even stood up for Barry. I never understood why he did what he did either, such an unnecessary direction to take. Without doubt, had he kept the way he was going, he would be one of the greats. To me though, not anymore.

Just my opinion.

]]>By: stlouis1baseballhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538286
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:26:43 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538286And just for the record C.C…Ozzie Smith’s birthday is NOT today.
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Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:22:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538277With you Bills. I think people want to believe Barry didn’t start juicing until the late 90’s.
No one knows. My ‘guess’…early 90’s. Cause he was a very large mammal mid 90’s.
His head didn’t start getting to the grotesque level until the late 90’s.
]]>By: stlouis1baseballhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-538272
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:17:53 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538272On point Cusack. But just curious…why (or how) did you come up with stopping his career in 1998? Also…Butler stated he read Barry got pissed at Big Mac and Sosa chasing the home run record and that’s why he started juicing. But I seem to remember Barry being as big as a house already. Specifically…unless I am not remembering correctly Barry was just as big or bigger than those dudes during this timeframe. No?
]]>By: yahmulehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538198
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:49:35 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538198Ray Lewis is a far bigger asshole than Barry Bonds could ever hope of being.
]]>By: yahmulehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-538197
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:46:28 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538197I thumbed this up for the sheer audacity.
]]>By: Gamera the Bravehttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538171
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:59:09 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538171Watched Bonds hit #712. Never seen a ball hit that hard. It was truly amazing, like it was shot out of a howitzer…

Yeah, pretty clear he was ‘roided up – but a lot of entertainment!

]]>By: Glennhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538149
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:18:57 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538149Just to add – since Barry didn’t seem to care about what the media or fans thought of him, it must have been worth it. He was as cutting edge as any edgy comedian or performer. Andy Kaufman, Andy Warhol, or Lenny Bruce would be jealous of that kind of performance art. I hate what he contributed to the downfall of baseball record integrity, but that was already gone when he blew it all up.
]]>By: Glennhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538147
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:14:31 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538147Though I hate what PEDs have done to baseball and would never support PED users going to the Hall of Fame, Barry Bonds on steroids was the most impressive thing that I have ever seen in sports. What was his strikes seen to HR rate? You couldn’t fantasize about that kind of performance in backyard wiffleball against your little sister. It was the closest thing to watching Superman.
]]>By: apkyletexashttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-538146
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:10:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538146By the way, nice Photoshop job to make Bonds look WIDER, Craig. Funny that such a common image gets ZERO hits out of 3.1785 BILLION images on tineye.com. (https://tineye.com/search/c576ffd94421c9cb73fba1e5cc23a999690cb5ef/)

Why stop at making Bonds look like a 400-pounder? Make him a 500-pounder for his next birthday.

]]>By: apkyletexashttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-538143
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 03:04:45 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538143Yup. I’d take a shot in the butt in a heartbeat if I could hit homeruns like that.
]]>By: dcarroll73http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/comment-page-2/#comment-538133
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:46:55 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538133Barry Bonds at his peak with the Giants would sometimes, in an entire game, see exactly one ball touching the edge of the strike zone, and he would crush it for a long ball. He was intentionally walked with the bases loaded multiple times. These are indications of how completely dominant he was. No pitcher or opposing manager with any sense wanted to give him a chance of beating them.
The comparisons to Williams, Ruth, and others from different eras are impossible to do in any rational way. I don’t mind sabermetrics, etc., when they are at least trying to measure people playing at the same time in the same circumstances. Trying to go beyond that with the mathematics makes no sense – there are too many unknowns that you can’t possibly filter out or adjust for. It’s worse than calculating numbers beyond correct significant figures and pretending that is more precise (which by the way it is not; instead it is wrong.)
I think that my point in the previous paragraph is why I don’t care about PEDS or the witch-hunt mentality of expunging “tainted” records or awards. As bitter as it may be for some, we can never know how or how much these drugs really affected baseball. We do know that plenty of hitters and plenty of pitchers are taking them. Was that a wash? Did it affect some players more than others? We will never know. Was it different from the effect of greenies after baseball expanded to the West Coast? Personally I would rather ignore it than have a regime like the Olympics.
Just to keep this on topic, Happy Birthday, Barry! To paraphrase what he was reported to have said once, “I never heard that steroids helped somebody hit a major league curveball.”
]]>By: nothanksimdriving123http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2013/07/24/happy-birthday-to-the-greatest-of-all-time/#comment-538114
Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:27:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538114The MLB home run king was born on Feb. 5, 1934, and is 79. He wore #44 and hit 755 of them.
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Thu, 25 Jul 2013 01:41:42 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=488001#comment-538094Also, Happy National Tequila Day!
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